This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

Dr. Yosef B. Moran is a writer and philosopher based in Antwerp, Belgium. He explores transcendence, human dignity, and the ...

“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he ...

Almost at the very end of the Mishneh Torah, in Laws of Kings and their Wars 11:4 (a passage censored out of most European editions of the Mishneh Torah), the Rambam (Maimonides) describes the tasks ...

History doesn’t always advance in light. Sometimes the real beginning happens when the light is gone and you’re left with nothing but night — thick night, the kind that makes the air feel heavier than ...

For as long as I can remember, the sound of Torah reading has carried something timeless. Whether it was a weekday minyan or a crowded Shabbat morning, those ancient melodies always connected me to ...

Jews revere the Torah as a central part of our religion. The word “Torah” is from the same Hebrew “root” word as the word for teacher. Torah is the teaching from God that we try to use to direct our ...